Open Innovation

Focused on working across industries, companies, departments, etc. – opposite of siloing. Crowdsourcing can fall under this goal as well, sourcing ideas from across industries, across companies, from the public, etc.

Pushing the Boundaries – Part 2: Making Open Innovation Relevant to More Economic Players

The MOOI-forum is in its 5th month now, focusing on Open Innovation and corporate culture as theme. Every month, great discussions emerge on the forum. This article takes a look at how open innovation can be applied in many different strategic settings compared to the showcases described in different publications during the last decade.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:30-07:00May 6th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Henry Chesbrough, MOOI, mooic, Open Innovation, strategy|

Innovation Golden Rules

In a February 2014 presentation, Herman Wories of the DSM Innovation Center made a compelling statement about the role of innovation in any organization: “Innovation is no longer a competitive advantage: it’s a competitive necessity. In order to keep up, you need to continuously innovate.”

Rob Hoehn2019-10-15T15:17:31-07:00May 2nd, 2014|Categories: Idea Management, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: Competition, Crowdsourcing, decision making, innovation, innovation lifecycle, Open Innovation, profit|

Soft is Hard to Change: The Challenge of aligning HR with Open Innovation

The fourth theme addressed by MOOI is the relation between Open Innovation and Human Resource Management. This article delves deeper into the few articles that have arisen on HR and OI in the academic and professional literatures and the lessons that can be drawn from these existing sources. It also shares some of the take aways from the MOOI-forum discussions on this particular topic focus.

Ideascale2021-12-05T20:51:40-08:00April 14th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Henry Chesbrough, HR, human resources, innovation team, MOOI, Open Innovation, strategy, talent management|

Innovation Governance: Why Should Top Management Care?

In its research report “CEO Challenge 2014, ”[1] The Conference Board lists the ten most important challenges facing CEOs in 2014. Innovation ranks N°3 in this survey of 1,020 responses, on a par with operational excellence. Innovation was the N°1 issue in 2012, and in 2014 it is still the N°1 challenge in China. This article (in a series of seven) looks at the theme of innovation governance from a top management angle.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:34-07:00April 14th, 2014|Categories: Leadership, Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, company-wide innovation, culture, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, Organization|

Organizational Processes and Structures Supporting Open Innovation

Open innovation cannot be implemented in companies without the right organizational structure and processes supporting it. What are these organizational structures and processes that facilitate open innovation in companies? They determine the success of open innovation practices and, therefore, this theme clearly deserves more attention from managers. It is surprising that very few academic and professional articles have been written about this topic.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:35-07:00April 4th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Henry Chesbrough, horizontal integration, Innovation Culture, innovation networks, MOOI, Open Innovation, organizational structure, processes, structure, vertical integration|

Pushing the Boundaries – Part 1: Understanding the Different “Faces” of Open Innovation

The MOOI-forum is in its 4th month now, focusing on Human Resources Management and Open Innovation as monthly theme. Every month, great discussions emerge on the forum. One topic that came back each month but remained somewhat in the background is what we could label “the different faces of open innovation”.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:37-07:00March 28th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: ambidexterity, Henry Chesbrough, human resources, MOOI, Open Innovation, strategy|

Measuring Open Innovation – a Metrics-Based Management Toolkit for Successful Innovation Teams – Part 2

How to apply metrics to open innovation (OI)? That's the question we often get from our clients when they start to develop their open innovation capabilities. In order to provide an answer to this critical question, the following article will focus on the key findings of our Open Innovation KPI 2012 study. Based on this study, a metrics-based management toolkit has been developed, which provides the most relevant key performance indicators from the perspective of innovation managers, subject matter experts, and consultants.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:11:26-07:00March 19th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: challenge driven innovation, framework, ideation contests, in-depth article, innovation controlling, Innovation Management, innovation toolbox, KPI, measure innovation, measuring innovation, metrics, Open Innovation, performance measurement, project management, scorecard|

Placing Time on Your Side for Collaborative Innovation

Time represents the persistent, substantive constraint to being effective within an organization. Can you have a moment of a sponsor’s time to share the benefits of collaborative innovation? Does the sponsor and challenge team perceive you as respecting their time once you persuade them to pursue the practice with you?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:40-07:00March 18th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: collaborative innovation, time, trust|

The Role of Top Management in Open Innovation

Implementing open innovation requires a shift in mindset and a change in culture. It requires individuals to be open for external ideas and to share knowledge. This is not the way innovation is managed traditionally. For individuals to behave in a way that fosters open innovation, support from the top management seems to be crucial. Is this really the case? Or are top executives too far away from the action when it comes to innovation and open innovation?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:42-07:00February 19th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: enabling factors, Henry Chesbrough, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, management, MOOI, Open Innovation, strategy|

Two Ingredients for Pursuing Externally Focused Innovation

Organizations increasingly seek new forms of innovation—and, for themselves, transformation—by engaging in co-creation with the suppliers, clients, and consumers that comprise their value streams. What insights might be gained from organizations that have begun to realize their potential for leadership by embracing openness as a core element of their charter? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins reflects on the progress that the Beijing Genomics Institute (B.G.I.) has made on this front. What lessons does B.G.I. have to teach organizations that decide to paddle with the Digital Age currents as opposed to against them?

Ideascale2020-07-10T14:35:45-07:00February 4th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: asia, case study, co-creation, collaborative innovation, externally focused innovation, genome, inovation, lessons learned, openness, strategy|

Implementing Open Innovation – Making It Stick

Open Innovation is becoming an essential part of an enterprise innovation strategy. Yet, so often, companies focus on getting a narrow set of tactical activities going without thinking through the strategic and organizational issues necessary to enable those activities to have the intended impact. This brief article covers a few of the implementation challenges faced by companies seeking to establish successful Open Innovation programs.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:19-07:00January 6th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, implementation, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, Open Innovation, Organization, strategic plan, strategy, vision|

Imperatives for an Effective Innovation Governance System

In this article, the final in a series of six, Professor Jean-Philippe Deschamps, discusses the imperatives for an effective innovation governance system. Innovation performance is often not directly dependent on the type of governance model used. Rather, innovation performance reflects the strength of top management’s commitment and engagement, and the credibility, skills and energy of the actors who under take the governance mission.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:43-07:00September 30th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, strategy|

The Great Wide Open

“Open innovation” is a technique that is gaining greater consideration these days. For many companies, this practice has the potential to help them quickly and efficiently harness the new ideas they need in a volatile and uncertain business environment. It also may accelerate and de-risk progress from idea to launch. To realize the power of open innovation, businesses first should come to terms with how “open” they are willing to be.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:14:42-07:00September 26th, 2013|Categories: Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Innovation Culture, innovation lifecycle, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, Open Innovation, R&D|

PharmaX, the CEO’s Dilemma and Open Innovation – Part 2

In the first installment, Gordon the newly appointed CEO at Pharmax is confronted with an innovation gap of 5 years. Certainly, the potential of the portfolio is high, but the risks are even higher. With market pressure breathing down his neck, Gordon tries to make sense of the options that he has and make the right decisions.

Ideascale2020-04-01T11:50:07-07:00September 18th, 2013|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: case study, CEO, chemical industry, innovation portfolio, Open Innovation, pharmaceutical, portfolio management, Problem Solving, R&D, risk management, strategy|

PharmaX, the CEO’s Dilemma and Open Innovation – Part 1

We are on the executive floor of the imaginary pharmaceutical company PharmaX, it is Q3 and the top management is preparing for the annual innovation review. The year has been tough with revenue being hit by generic competition as their major products come off patent, but then it has been difficult for all the industry. This is the first article in a series of three. Parts 2 & 3 will be published in the next 2 weeks.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:09:35-07:00September 10th, 2013|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: case study, CEO, Open Innovation, pharmaceutical, R&D, risk management|